DARSANIKA MAHA PRAVACHANA

realms of the real essence so long as
it takes the objects as they appear
to be, for the objects-in-themselves.
The fundamental error of the views
of science consists firstly in taking
the apparent for the real or in the
non-differentiation of the apparent
from the reality or in other words in
the non-apprehension of the differ-
ence between the representation and
the thing-in-itself. The view based
on such fundamental errors is what
we call the empirical view. We may
also take a cursory view of the em-
pirical view of general sciences as
an empiricist does, only with the
exception that we shall not, how-
ever, lose sight of the fact that the
phenomenal object is the object of
observation. Suppose that here is
a book which is a phenomenal ob-
ject so far as I perceive it as such
with my senses. It is a fact of the
universe and this has many factors
in itself. Its colour, say green or red,
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